Please buy another G1 Bumblebee but this time from the terrible Awakening short!Previous:>>11898776
>>11904173>alt mode clearly patterened after classics bumblebeeGetting overpriced, mediocre toonershit toys that are trying to copy the aesthetic of superior golden-era CHUG toys (which sold for 1/3rd the price) is fucking hilarious.
>>11904173Holding out hope that Bug Bite is recolored from this, it'd go hard.
>>11904182If that's what you need to tell yourself anon, by all means keep enjoying your twenty year old toys.
i would genuinely think about it if it combined, which it does not.
>>11904182Are we still pretending Classics Bumblebee was good? This shit didn't even come with a gun.
I don't care about another goddamn bee, just give me bug bite, SG goldbug, fucking something
>>11904194Glyph. The first one in forever.
New Bee is $30BWAHAHAHAHA
>>11904190The combination in the short was bullshit, more like a magic blending than an actual physical combination. Some 3P might make frameslop of it though
>>11904193It wasnt amazing but it was good
>>11904193You're American, you have extra guns you can give him
>>11904208That's the new Deluxe price.
>>11904213I got that football helmet guy on clearance a couple weeks ago for $13, it was nice to spend >$20 on a toy that size again. It'll never go back though, it's going to keep getting more expensive forever until the brand collapses.
>>11904205I'd be happy with a glyph from either the Dev or 86 mold, but they better give her some nice metallic plastic
>>11904227and some nice metallic boobies
I’m just waiting for Allicon to go up for preorder.Was the Quintisson Judge ok even though it barely transforms?
>>11904173Where's the fucking Throttlebots?
>>11904233I was happy with it, though I wish the mouth moved on all the faces. It only does on some for some reason.
>>11904190Remember your ancestorsKitbash it yourself
>>11904173This is kinda cool, might get it.
>deluxes are $45 in canada nowSo much for muh orange man bad cope
>>11904245>Trump puts tariffs in place>Hasbro increases prices to mitigate increased cost of manufacturing>uses this as an excuse to further increase prices elsewhere due to greedboth are a problem. this isn't hard to understand.
>>11904245just wait to see what they’re gonna cost 2 years from now when we’re still in an oil crisis and hasbro still wants to gouge on top of that
>>11904245>$150 for 3 action figuresUnsustainable
>>11904107>I have seen almost nothing but praise for short in pretty much every online corner of the fandom, including /co/.Go look at the achieves the threads stop bumping or 404 the moment people start taking apart what's wrong with the short. Also a lot of the old forums are having these defenders roll i with accounts that there last post before this new release was 5+ years ago. The masses are not loving it any more than they hate it but if these "shills" or whatever you want to call them don't back off they are going to just see everyone turn on this because the more light you put on this short, the worse the reception gets. >>11904248At this rate just wait two months.
>>11904173The short wasn’t that bad, cmon. At least they gave us something new
>>11904233He's somewhat hollow for his jail alt to be a thing, and his face changing gimmick, charming as it is, isn't the best way to rotate the faces around as just holding the tab, and moving it manually. These increasing prices make it hard to recommend to anyone unless you just really like Quintissons and/or Judge.
>>11904173That thing is going to glut Ollie's and other discount markets. >>11904266The "Apology Tour" was not the best thing to run with as a market gimmick with that short. It almost certainly would sour people to it even without Peter's death. You are making the theme that you shouldn't have killed Prime to make a short that is demanding he quit trying and go away. Not the best message to go with that.
>>11904260It's way more likely that those old accounts are just old guys who came back because of the movie release and have no interest in any new media for the most part. There's not enough money in the world to organize a bunch of random online accounts and pay them to advertise a 12 minute short attached to a rerelease. The world isn't that dramatic.
>>11904173Well this tells us that the plan was always to sell toys. Can't even do a nice send off for poor Cullen, got to drain every last drop from 40yo man-children >>11904260>>11904271There is hardly any real traffic talking about. AI made it possible to actually view activity and much like 4chan, it's just no being talk about.
>>11904245$30 at BBTS
>>11904270>You are making the theme that you shouldn't have killed Prime to make a short that is demanding he quit trying and go away. Not the best message to go with that.I think a lot of people are reading way too much into it. The idea I took was more that he had to accept his death for the time being, he would get his chance to fight and die again. For the moment he just needed to be present to be in the Matrix when Rodimus opens it, which is why he talks about lighting our darkest hour at the end.The only really confusing thing is having dream sequence Megatron take the Matrix as if it's mean to have any consequence. It shouldn't, both because it's just a vision and because decepticons can't use the Matrix.
>>11904277>Optimus meets God>"OPTIMUS PRIME YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF... NOW!!"
>>11904162>shill for liking a cartoonJust take the L anon. This is just embarrassing.
>>11904193>Shitting on Classics BeeShut your whore mouth.
>>11904280He's already dead though.
>>11904245>EBGamesWait. What?
>>11904285The devil had to convince him he wasn't coming back to life in a few years to help truly save cybertron and take the matrix back from Rodimus.
>>11904173Stop trying to post bullshit duplicate threads asshatReal thread is here >>11898580
>>11904300But he did come back to life later, twice iirc.
>>11904304Correct, which is why the whole short made no damn sense.
>>11904266It was a terrible addon to thr movie I'd rather see a shameless ad for SS86 than that
>>11904074>>11904078is THAT what he was saying? I thought he was saying stop fighting FOR A MOMENT because they will need you later, but if you insist on coming back to life right now, things will go all sideways.
>>11904301Fuck off with your made up shit
>>11904317
>>11904270Apology Tour was a fine marketing gimmick, I enjoyed it. They’re talking directly to the now-grown kids who cried when Prime died in 1986. They know their audience. It’s a joke. The short was open to interpretation, I didn’t see it as a call for him to give up.>>11904307>ads for ss86Which played before the movie, which I also didn’t mind.
>>11904313>>11904321>"Tell me what you want!">"For you to break the cycle!">"And turn my back on everyone?!">"If you value their sacrifice!">"We can win!">"NO! The Decepticons will simply be replaced by another, and you will know nothing but loss and death.">"I will not abandon my friends!">"Then watch them be destroyed!"
>>11904313>I thought he was saying stop fighting FOR A MOMENT because they will need you later, but if you insist on coming back to life right now, things will go all sideways.that's all there is to it.Everyone else is overthinking it. Optimus needed to die for now so the Matrix goes to Hot Rod and he goes through the whole journey that would allow them to enter Unicron by surprise and take him down. Optimus needs to be within the Matrix for it to be at full power and let Rodimus know what to do. If Optimus kept fighting Megatron they'd be taken by surprise by Unicron and not be prepared to fight back.
Grabbed 2 more Starscreams just because I could. He’s already sold out again.
What you're all ignoring is that the short is bad because in the movie Optimus does not show any abnormal resistance to his death, he just passes the Matrix on to Magnus and tells him he has faith in him. The short is rewriting the character from the movie it is meant to accompany.
Goddammit, thats what I get for doing chores
>>11904328It's not people are overthinking so much as the story is so piss poorly told. If that was all the short was about, what was the point of the Evil Bumble? Or even Bumblebee at all? Why even have those scenes? Why did Prime get a human hand in the Unicron vision? Why did Prime need to drop a already passed on Matrix into lava? Why have a post credit scene where Megs finds it and takes it? Why have vision of Megs with said Matrix? You are just looking at one tiny part and saying "because this makes sense the whole thing is fine"
>>11904343Ad for Age of Megatron toyline
>buy a figure because it's discounted and only has a few left>few weeks later they are getting more at a even bigger discount I know I would also be kicking myself if I didn't bite and it then went out of stock/to full price but it still stings that G2 Slag and Snarl went from 25% off to now 50%.
>>11904328>If Optimus kept fighting MegatronPretty sure Megatron wouldn't be a problem
>>11904347where?
>>11904336Agreed, as noted >>11904270 having a theme for your event being about making things right, it just made everything worse.>>11904343Honestly I think it's just the usual Hasbro meddling and it'll likely come out as such, this is no different than how disjointed the Transformers Prime series got over the creation team fighting with the writers, or even how sideways season 3 of Beast Wars went when Hasbro just wouldn't tell the team what toys they did and didn't want included which lead to the BW team to opt out of being involved in Beast Machines. Like the 86 movie, Hasbro is their own worse enemy insisting on things that just hurt them more than help them.
>>11904350https://indemandtoys.co.uk/products/pre-order-transformers-generation-selects-g2-dinobots-2-pack
I'm actually shocked to have him. Target came through. The sale price didn't hurt either. I'm content.
>>11904353He's pretty good. This is my first go around with the new Seeker mold. I'm tempted to grab Thunderstrike and Skywarp but I don't have any more room on my TF shelf for two more Seekers.
Rate my Cons. I know it's a pretty basic bitch lineup, but I love this particular lineup. I'm pretty content now. Shockwave wasn't worth the upgrade and Astrotrain is outright a downgrade so I'm good on the old ones. Now just give us some more Armada Decepticons and I'll be happy.
>>11904336The "short" is an abomination of bullshit and borderline AI slop thrown together for "hype" and shitIt entirely fucks with what canon is already there
>>11904355I found Shockwave a lot better than I gave credit forHe really is an improvement over the SiegeAs for Astrotrain aim for the DCS. Easily best version.The SS86 is horrid in every way imaginable and I actually think not even 3P can fix it
>>11904317Spoken like a loser pissy he couldn't start a thread and is now derailing shit out of spite
>>11904359He is literally the Siege with more cartoon accurate looks. Whether he's an improvement or not depends entirely on one's sense of aesthetics.
>>11904359Yeah, what >>11904377 says. It's the same figure with a slightly different asthetic and I'm not anal enough to get annoyed at greebles. So, I'll just stick with the older one. The other figures though are straight up upgrades from the old ones.
Somebodies mad
>>11904377>>11904383Yes it's the Siege but feels smoother, looks nicer and is better coloring. I get sticking with Siege tho but my OCD/Tism wouldn't wanna mix stylizations
>>11904392To be fair, this thread was made by the same asshole who ignores existing new threads made judy because he doesn't like OP's photo for it and who also throws a screaming tantrum if we don't exclusively post in a thread that is 400+ and is already on page 8 or 9 that he started
Why is this general always so God damn mentally ill.
>>11904405The OP is a stupid asshole who is pissy he didn't get to make the new TF thread and detailed discussion started a second thread
>>11904405We had an existing TF thread but some pissant didn't like that he didn't start thread with his gay photo so he decided to derail conversation by starting a second thread no one wanted out of spite
>>11904393>>11904397What's really funny is there is like two or three people at most in these threads, totally bonkers to get this butt mad over any of this on either side.>>11904405 >>11904411>>11904415(You)
>>11904245remember when you were about to get rid of trudeau and then orange man conveniently started shitting on canada so everyone voted for trudeau 2it's almost like it's all being done on purpose, but nawwwwstick to transformers, man
>>11904270erone of those statements is in-universe, the other is out-of-universe. where's the conflict?
>>11904173So we have Optimus with Megatron's entire arm and now Bumblebee with his gun. Realistically how many more characters can Habsro get away with slapping his gun on?
>>11904359What, in your opinion, is an improvement over the Siege version?
>>11904317why would you reply to thatanyway great, now we have two threads again. fantastic.>>11904325yeah but I think he was just testing optimus>>11904351the BW team didn't opt out, they were replaced. specifically with people who never saw the show. deliberately.isnt the entire point 'hey let's give peter one more chance to shine, on account of he's got cancer'kinda like that crisis movie did for kevin
>>11904343>what was the point of the Evil Bumble? Or even Bumblebee at all?Hasbro trying to force G1 Bumblebee into Bay Bumblebee, ruining his character
>>11904411>>11904415You mean the other thread started a week and a half ago that wasn't linked anywhere while an ongoing thread was still healthy?That thread?
>>11904395>feels smootherDoes he still have the clicky joints in his hips and knees? I always thought they were strange. No one else has ratchets that feel just like his
>>11904468You know, true and fairMaybe it's personal preference for him feeling smoother yet I DO really like the Siege and still have him. Looking back it's funny he has a nicer Alt Mode to me because the extra bits turn him into some sick Micro Scale Battlecruiser type and was cheaper retail now SS86 is more and has less. Kinda funny now
I see we lost a chunk of our image limit to a sperg's temper tantrum. terrific.
>>11904468Not that anon but I like that the new is less grebbly. Though I wish they kept the attachment points for the Seige armor
>>11904479Sixshot repaint when?
>>11904193will never understand why people think classics/combiner wars/most stuff pre-Siege was in anyway good or better than our current stuff. Hollow waffling everywhere, kibble hanging everywhere, cheap plastic, pointless gimmicks, zero scaling, barely any articulation.
>>11904487How about a new Shockblast first and then Six Shot?
>>11904490Some things were great but it’s weird how people act like hollow waffling is new
>>11904491Not in the budget
>>11904491Nemesis Star Convoy or whatever comes with one
>>11904492they used to do it with more discernment, almost a sense of reluctant necessity.now half the fucking visible surface of a limb is hollow and the back might be even hollower.
>>11904491>>11904487wonder if Shocky could be retooled
>>11904487>>11904491God I wish
>>11904173They're giving out fusion canons left and right these days Does the one from Energon Optimus look good/work with SS Megatron? Maybe this one will? Or are they the same cannon
what's the thirdie mad about now?
>>11904523Bro that Bumblebee doesn't even come to Megatron's knee. It's a fusion cannon for ants.
>>11904173holler-ass forearms..
>>11904490Most of original Classics run was just alright but the 2008-2010 CHUG had tons of gems and coincided with Animated and Movie lines. We have never had toys that good before or since those years.
New episode of Wild King W is just about Undead Dragnus, supposedly. Ugh, I hate how that show is region locked.
>>11904524Op is pissy he didn't get to make the next thread
>>11904579that happened in the ctg thread. Op was mad that someone else made one so he spammed the board with like 20 ctg threads
>>11904551Pic unrelated.
>>11904173I don't own the devastation Bumblebee mold yet so I might get this one. Evil Bee sounds hilarious
>>11904601why does he have a decepticon logo on his shoulder instead of just pasting it over his chest logo
>>11904551It was so good
>>11904603Cool points I guess
>>11904603Funniest part is that part is unpaintable plastic on the toy so he has a plug in piece that has the Decepitcon symbol. So now one of his shoulders is wider than the other, in addition to the FunPub era head.
>>11904607gotta admit, it looked pretty cool. and it's one of those things it would be annoying to do in 2d (well these days they can just do a flat 3d texture that just automatically stretches over it, but)This guy's swords, on the other hand, what is their deal? that's like the opposite of an edge.>>11904605yeahhh that is maybe the best car altmode.>>11904609kek, what a fiasco. just use a fucking sticker, hasbrony.
>>11904613Maybe they are more like batons instead of swords
>>11904213Retards will say the new price is fineI don't know why they do, but they love high prices
>>11904618kinda look like missiles.. either way, batons are terrible weapons.>>11904621anon, those people who describe you as 'fine' don't really like you
>>11904613>kek, what a fiascoAlso: the animation model uses Origins Bumblebee as a base, not Devastation.
>>11904632are both of those trying to be G1?
>>11904213I will not be buying at "new" retail price
>>11904694it's been annoying watching weird /pol/ types accuse hasbro of jewry (not understanding the basic difference between good and bad business. They're the kind that actually succeeds, you see. This failing cheapo shit is more Taiwan's demesne) while at the same time, adopting the sensible hebraic policy of never paying retail.
>>11904703>demesneI thought you were having a stroke but apparently that is a word. Albeit an archaic one.
GT Scorcher feels so old-fashioned in a good way, like a lost Classics mold.
>>11904706it's one of those weird things where you hear it all the time, and assume it's another word, then the first time you see it written, it sticks in your head so you keep using it.I almost said 'legerdemain' because I forgot that actually means sleight-of-hand.
I've seen some theories that that over there is Megatron taking over Bumblebee's body. I doubt that, and while I think it would be a load of scrap if it were true, I appreciate the Prime reference.
>>11904267So that Quintesson is now just Laetitia's equivalent of Frieza's pod thing? Does that mean that she was secretly the one in charge of the Quintessons all along?
>>11904248>oil crisisThe "oil crisis" is entirely fake.
>>11904742I know conservatives are trained to dismissing anything that contradicts their world view, but come the fuck on man.
>>11904750it is for the us since we have other sources and we don't fucking need hormuz
>>11904491Here you go, bro.
>>11904750You're aware that Alaska has one of the largest oil deposits on the planet, right? It's almost completely untapped, though, because the US is saving it in the event of there being an actual crisis.
reddit said there was some giant optimus prime you can buy at target?
>>11904764Star Convoy, maybe?
>>11904778They were talking about it on some popcorn bucket post so I think it's not something strictly toy related. When I wake up I'll trawl the site some more.
>>11904764https://www.target.com/p/big-figs-30-34-transformers-optimus-prime-action-figure-tgt-exclusive/-/A-95056707
>>11904780oh shit, thanks
>>11904490>classics/combiner wars/most stuff pre-SiegeThe fact that you're lumping all of that together is very bizarre. I'm guessing you started collecting with Siege and are in your 20s or early 30s.
>>11904551>2008-2010 CHUG had tons of gems and coincided with Animated and Movie lines. We have never had toys that good before or since those years.And we never will again. It actually wouldn't surprise me if Transformers had another big resurgence, even if not on the level of 2006-2011, but the toy industry gets less and less relevant every year.
>>11904193He's a lil espionage unit and he comes with a neat jetpack, leave him alone
They'll ship out Liokaiser annnnnny day nowAnnnnny day now
>>11904273>30 USD and not CAD>30 USD is already 42 CAD>plus shipping to Canada and anything elseHoly FUCK you're retarded
>>11904780That's a big Prime.
>>11904798Mine shipped today!
>>11904808Nice, hopefully yours turns up soon, and hopefully mine gets booted out the door today too.
>>11904803>That's a big Prime.FOR YOUIt's funny how they straight up copied the SS86 to the point of having fake transformation joints and slots sculpted.
>>11904811Hopefully everyone in Europe will receive them before the end of the month, at the very least this confirms that they're finally shipping them so the wait is pretty much over.
>>11904266It was that bad.
>>11904790I'm also in my early 30s and I think he's insane for lumping classics & combiner wars together
